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What is eLua?

eLua stands for Embedded Lua and the project offers the full implementation of the Lua Programming Language to the embedded world, extending it with specific features for efficient and portable software embedded development.

eLua offers the full features of the regular Lua desktop version and uses Lua's native mechanisms to extend it with embedded development optimized and specific features.

Some aspects of eLua are:

Full control of the platform: eLua runs on the "bare-metal". There is no Operating System between your programs and the microcontroller.

Source code portability: Like in Lua, you program in C, Lua or a mixture of both and your program runs in a wide varied of (sometimes radically different) platforms and architectures supported.

Transform hardware in commodity: Design and code your products for eLua and make them hardware-independent. Upgrade or completely change your hardware in the future and save time and money invested on the previous code development.

Development on targets: Fully functional Lua and a dedicated command shell on the microcontroller itself. No need to install development environments on the PC side, other than a serial or ehternet console/terminal emulator. Use any text editor, save your programs in sd/mmc and other media and use them directly in your platforms.

Embedded RAD: Prototype and experiment on a Rapid Aplication Develop model. Test your ideas directly on the target platforms and cheap development kits. No need for simulators or future code adaptations.

Ready to use kits: A big (and growing) number of Open Source hardware and commercially available platforms are supported (see here
). Prototype cheap and fast and design your final hardware later using the produced code.

Learn embedded: Simple interactive and interpreted experimenting cycle. Use your desktop programming skills to become an embedded systems developer in no time and with a lot of fun.

Worry-free Licence: eLua is free and open-source software and we promote it as much as we can. But our MIT licence (the same as Lua's) allows you to use eLua in your commercial and private-code products as well. Nothing to ask, no royalties to pay, just tell the world you're using eLua.